Trento - History of the city and itinerary of sights.
Trentino Cultural Institute - Founded in 1962, the institute conducts research in hmanistic, scientific and technological areas. Includes details of main activities, events and historical information.
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Trento Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Trento
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Trento When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Trento
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Trento Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Trento
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Trento Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Trento
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Trento A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trento
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Trento "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Trento
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Trento Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Trento
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Trento Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Trento
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Trento Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Trento
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Trento Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Trento
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Trento "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Trento
